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On May 04 2012 17:22 skyR wrote:Yes.
Thank you for the swift response. Anyone else, can I get a 2nd or 3rd opinion? I'm rather newbish, so I want to be as assured as possible that this is the right call.
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Can I run Skyrim at max with the high res texture pack with an OCed gtx 260 and i7 920 at 3.7 ghz?
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Probably not, the GTX260 is not really a powerhouse anymore. The CPU isn't that fantastic either.
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On May 04 2012 17:26 dabom88 wrote:Thank you for the swift response. Anyone else, can I get a 2nd or 3rd opinion? I'm rather newbish, so I want to be as assured as possible that this is the right call.
SkyR is god, if god says so then it is so.
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The above statement is true. 
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I bought a 1TB seagate drive about 2 years ago. It worked fine for quite a while, the only real annoying thing is it didn't have a power switch to turn the drive off. A few weeks ago though, the thing literally fell apart. The bit of adhesive that connected the USB port to the board inside came off and the USB port literally fell off. When I went to pull the internal drive out, it took almost no force at all to pull the cheap plastic apart. I have to say, I was pleasently surprised to find a really nice quality drive inside, but the case was really cheaply made. Unfortunatly this is the situation with most pre-built externals, if that's the route you want to go Seagate is a good option though. You won't get a piece of shit drive inside, which sometimes happens with others.
Though knowing what I know now, I highly reccommend buying a drive and then buying an enclosure for it. You might spend a small bit more, but it's a better option. For starters, if you ever want to you have the option to easily switch out drives if you ever need to hook another one up. You have a much better options in terms of drive type and size, and if you buy a nice enclosure you won't need to worry about it getting so easily damaged. Further, most stand alone enclosures that you can buy have some nice features, such as a switch to power off the drive (so so so nice, trust me) and many have esata ports as well (which is still faster than USB).
On May 04 2012 20:12 iKill[ShocK] wrote:Show nested quote +On May 04 2012 17:26 dabom88 wrote:On May 04 2012 17:22 skyR wrote:Yes. Thank you for the swift response. Anyone else, can I get a 2nd or 3rd opinion? I'm rather newbish, so I want to be as assured as possible that this is the right call. SkyR is god, if god says so then it is so.
Hmmmm no. 
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Anyone know why spell check from firefox doesn't work on this site? Seems to work every other site, any known fixes?
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Running out of space, on my current hard drive. If I re-install a my operating system (Win7) onto the new drive, will buying a Caviar Black or a Caviar Blue make any noticeable difference in performance?
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On May 04 2012 23:51 SpeCtor wrote:
Running out of space, on my current hard drive. If I re-install a my operating system (Win7) onto the new drive, will buying a Caviar Black or a Caviar Blue make any noticeable difference in performance?
Depends, what's your current drive?
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On May 04 2012 23:53 TheToast wrote:Show nested quote +On May 04 2012 23:51 SpeCtor wrote:
Running out of space, on my current hard drive. If I re-install a my operating system (Win7) onto the new drive, will buying a Caviar Black or a Caviar Blue make any noticeable difference in performance? Depends, what's your current drive?
Its just a bog standard 500GB HD I got with the computer. It scored 5.9 in my Windows Experience Rating compared to 7.5/7.6 of my other component.
I guess the main question is, will the difference between blue and black make any noticeable difference? Is the extra cost worth it?
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On May 05 2012 00:16 SpeCtor wrote:Show nested quote +On May 04 2012 23:53 TheToast wrote:On May 04 2012 23:51 SpeCtor wrote:
Running out of space, on my current hard drive. If I re-install a my operating system (Win7) onto the new drive, will buying a Caviar Black or a Caviar Blue make any noticeable difference in performance? Depends, what's your current drive? Its just a bog standard 500GB HD I got with the computer. It scored 5.9 in my Windows Experience Rating compared to 7.5/7.6 of my other component. I guess the main question is, will the difference between blue and black make any noticeable difference? Is the extra cost worth it?
Windows Experience is the worst benchmark known to man, followed closely by passmark.
No, a black over a blue is beyond negligible for most people, assuming specs are the same.
There is no such thing as a bog standard HDD.
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Most Caviar Black models are slightly noisier. That might be the only thing that people would actually notice, since the performance and reliability differences are small enough to go by undetected without running some synthetic benchmarks or buying a whole lot of them.
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On May 05 2012 00:16 SpeCtor wrote:Show nested quote +On May 04 2012 23:53 TheToast wrote:On May 04 2012 23:51 SpeCtor wrote:
Running out of space, on my current hard drive. If I re-install a my operating system (Win7) onto the new drive, will buying a Caviar Black or a Caviar Blue make any noticeable difference in performance? Depends, what's your current drive? Its just a bog standard 500GB HD I got with the computer. It scored 5.9 in my Windows Experience Rating compared to 7.5/7.6 of my other component. I guess the main question is, will the difference between blue and black make any noticeable difference? Is the extra cost worth it?
I can't tell you whether or not a component will be better if you can't tell me what your current component is.
On May 05 2012 00:23 Myrmidon wrote:
Most Caviar Black models are slightly noisier. That might be the only thing that people would actually notice, since the performance and reliability differences are small enough to go by undetected without running some synthetic benchmarks or buying a whole lot of them.
Well if he's currently got a 5400rpm drive with an 8mb cache, then yes he could see a pretty dramatic increase in performance. Quality would probably be a factor here as well, cheaper drives tend to die more often and after less use time.
If he's currently got a nicer drive such as a Barracuda 7200 then there would probably be no measurable difference by moving to the Cavier Blue. Might see a pretty small increase in performance with the black, as it has the 32mb cache. But that's not really going to apply in terms of gaming performance or load times.
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Ah whoops. I agree with what you're saying. I was responding to the second question, of there being a noticeable difference between a Caviar Blue and Black.
The earlier post was ambiguous and can be interpreted as (1) is there a difference between the old hard drive and a new one (Caviar Blue or Black)? or (2) is there a difference between Caviar Blue and Black?
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On May 05 2012 00:39 Myrmidon wrote:
Ah whoops. I agree with what you're saying. I was responding to the second question, of there being a noticeable difference between a Caviar Blue and Black.
The earlier post was ambiguous and can be interpreted as (1) is there a difference between the old hard drive and a new one (Caviar Blue or Black)? or (2) is there a difference between Caviar Blue and Black?
Oh, gotcha. Yeah I guess I just assumed he was talking about the old drive.
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On May 05 2012 00:34 TheToast wrote:Show nested quote +On May 05 2012 00:16 SpeCtor wrote:On May 04 2012 23:53 TheToast wrote:On May 04 2012 23:51 SpeCtor wrote:
Running out of space, on my current hard drive. If I re-install a my operating system (Win7) onto the new drive, will buying a Caviar Black or a Caviar Blue make any noticeable difference in performance? Depends, what's your current drive? Its just a bog standard 500GB HD I got with the computer. It scored 5.9 in my Windows Experience Rating compared to 7.5/7.6 of my other component. I guess the main question is, will the difference between blue and black make any noticeable difference? Is the extra cost worth it? I can't tell you whether or not a component will be better if you can't tell me what your current component is. Show nested quote +On May 05 2012 00:23 Myrmidon wrote:
Most Caviar Black models are slightly noisier. That might be the only thing that people would actually notice, since the performance and reliability differences are small enough to go by undetected without running some synthetic benchmarks or buying a whole lot of them. Well if he's currently got a 5400rpm drive with an 8mb cache, then yes he could see a pretty dramatic increase in performance. Quality would probably be a factor here as well, cheaper drives tend to die more often and after less use time. If he's currently got a nicer drive such as a Barracuda 7200 then there would probably be no measurable difference by moving to the Cavier Blue. Might see a pretty small increase in performance with the black, as it has the 32mb cache. But that's not really going to apply in terms of gaming performance or load times.
I apologise for being such a jackass when I gave the information. To be honest my initial question is whether I will notice a difference between a Caviar Blue or Black if I install Win7 on it?
Thanks so much for your help so far
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On May 05 2012 06:24 SpeCtor wrote:Show nested quote +On May 05 2012 00:34 TheToast wrote:On May 05 2012 00:16 SpeCtor wrote:On May 04 2012 23:53 TheToast wrote:On May 04 2012 23:51 SpeCtor wrote:
Running out of space, on my current hard drive. If I re-install a my operating system (Win7) onto the new drive, will buying a Caviar Black or a Caviar Blue make any noticeable difference in performance? Depends, what's your current drive? Its just a bog standard 500GB HD I got with the computer. It scored 5.9 in my Windows Experience Rating compared to 7.5/7.6 of my other component. I guess the main question is, will the difference between blue and black make any noticeable difference? Is the extra cost worth it? I can't tell you whether or not a component will be better if you can't tell me what your current component is. On May 05 2012 00:23 Myrmidon wrote:
Most Caviar Black models are slightly noisier. That might be the only thing that people would actually notice, since the performance and reliability differences are small enough to go by undetected without running some synthetic benchmarks or buying a whole lot of them. Well if he's currently got a 5400rpm drive with an 8mb cache, then yes he could see a pretty dramatic increase in performance. Quality would probably be a factor here as well, cheaper drives tend to die more often and after less use time. If he's currently got a nicer drive such as a Barracuda 7200 then there would probably be no measurable difference by moving to the Cavier Blue. Might see a pretty small increase in performance with the black, as it has the 32mb cache. But that's not really going to apply in terms of gaming performance or load times. I apologise for being such a jackass when I gave the information. To be honest my initial question is whether I will notice a difference between a Caviar Blue or Black if I install Win7 on it? Thanks so much for your help so far
Nope, that's cool just miscommunication.
Installing the operating system will slow the speed at which you are able to copy/paste/delete/read files from the drive. Basically, you are now adding all of the OS read/write requests on top of all the file read/write requests. If it was a SSD, there probably wouldn't be much noticable difference. But a 7200RPM drive has a maximum read spead around 1Mb/s. So if the OS is trying to read data at the same time as, for example, SC2 both are going to load slightly slower.
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could I use an ssd as a primary drive? I dont really have much to store besides sc2/steam games/skype/xsplit
+ Show Spoiler +http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148443&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL050412&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL050412-_-EMC-050412-Index-_-SSD-_-20148443-L07B
and would this water cooling unit fit in my case? i had a corsair h60 beforehand and it didnt fit ( i have a thermaltake v3 black)
+ Show Spoiler +http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0361180
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On May 05 2012 06:59 Zushen wrote:could I use an ssd as a primary drive? I dont really have much to store besides sc2/steam games/skype/xsplit + Show Spoiler +http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148443&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL050412&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL050412-_-EMC-050412-Index-_-SSD-_-20148443-L07B and would this water cooling unit fit in my case? i had a corsair h60 beforehand and it didnt fit ( i have a thermaltake v3 black) + Show Spoiler +http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0361180
If the SSD has enough capacity for you, yes.
Don't get a 120mm closed loop liquid cooler. Ever. And the Kuhler 620 pretty much IS an H60, in essence. They both blow balls, especially at price/performance.
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